A Plan

This course is based on Tracey Swanepoel’s book The Leadership Riptide and How to Escape, which has been chosen by the South African Board of People Practitioners as one of their top 5 leadership books and aims to assist executives seeking to change their leadership styles and increase employee engagement in their organisations.

Leadership is first and foremost about relationships. A leader’s job is to influence and in order to influence you have to connect. A great performance management system or fantastic incentive bonus will not result in sustained behaviour change – only an authentic connection with employees will accomplish that.Conscious and deliberate leadership is rare in companies. The command/control leadership paradigm still haunts us. The disconnect between what science shows us and what businesses do is clear. Employees remain over-managed and under-led, which results in them feeling disengaged and withholding their discretionary effort.

The Escaping the Leadership Riptide course is designed to get participants to explore the six characteristics that research shows companies need more of, but are most often ignored - namely practice, progress, strengths, love, trust and play. Participants are also introduced to practices and tools that help them to:

know themselves better,

know their audiences and

find the story in the messages they want to communicate so that they can better connect with their employees.

The course is interactive and practical and participants can immediately start implementing what they’ve learned back in the workplace environment.

For 6 months after the course, we provide the participants with 3 one-hour follow-up sessions (at 2, 4, and 6-months) to ensure the smooth implementation of their Individual Leadership Game Plan.

Course at a glance

Day One

Part One: Foundations and scene setting

The Current leadership paradigm – challenges and opportunities

The purpose of leadership

The need to lead differently: What kind of environment should leaders create?

Follow up, Feedback and Measurement

In action

To learn more

What They Say

Inspiring, ‘thinkspirational’ and exhilarating.

OnQ Research delegate

The workshop on “Escaping the leadership riptide” was a complete mind shift for me! The energy that Tracey and Lisa brought was not only inspiring but incredibly valuable for me as a “young” lady still finding her feet and learning about herself as a leader. Thank you for the opportunity to better myself and also create leaders as I go!

Leandre

You both are very inspiring and professional, I think you really do what your passion is, and it shows!Thanks for the “safe” space and positivity that you created for the two days. The positively framed question (positive thought) to start your day, handling conflict situations by changing the conflict and putting somebody in your shoes, the idea of having a think partner, are all very valuable tools I have learnt and I’ll try to put it into practise.

Was great to connect with dynamic women, share ideas and also to get to know you a little better.

...it was a great experience!

Wilma

A complete mindset shift. I would like more of our people to attend this!

Vedanta Resources delegate

Super Practical– I have already started using the tools – to great effect!